[mdlug] ext2 on USB drive?

[Wojtak, Greg]

Sorry for being terse, but I call BS on the "indications on the internet
that trying to reformat a USB drive has destroyed it."  If writing
filesystem information to a USB drive destroys it, then I can't see that you
wouldn't lose your data anyways, since that is all a format is really doing.

I hope that makes sense - my first cup of coffee is sitting in front of me,
undrunk as of yet.

Greg


On 2/5/08 8:40 PM, "Stan Green" <Stan at mcomputersolutions.com> wrote:

> I picked up a 8GB USB drive at Micro Center. It is one of their store brand
> devices. When I went to use it I realized it is formated FAT32 which has a
> 4GB file size limit. The reason I got the drive was to move large (6-7GB)
> files. I know ext2 can support larger files, but I hesitate to reformat the
> USB drive for fear of destroying it. (I have seen some indications on the
> internet that trying to reformat a USB drive has destroyed it.)
> 
> My thought is to keep a small FAT32 partition to store the Windows and Mac
> ext2 drivers in case I need them one of these systems.
> 
> Has anyone formated a USB drive as ext2?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stan Green
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